You can buy here now a computer for just under four hundred pounds, a week and a bit`s work to the average man.

This is one from my local store

AMD SEMPRON 3000 SKT 754 PROCESSOR
FOXCONN 760GXK8MB MAINBOARD
256MB DDR PC400 MEMORY
80GB HARD DRIVE IDE 7200
DVD COMBO / CDRW
FLOPPY DRIVE
KEYBOARD + OPTICAL MOUSE + SPEAKERS
WINDOWS XP HOME CD AND MANUAL

£ 299.00
PRICE INCLUDES VAT / MONITOR SOLD SEPERATELY

£ 410.00 WITH 15" TFT MONITOR

a week and a bit`s work to the average man???

Oh,,,this 299 pounds system can cost my 6 months cost of living...That is my parents must work more than 2 months and can't pay money to anything else~~~~~

That's the disparity in different country...Hard to imagine

[ Last edited by tfzjn on 2005-9-8 at 00:34 ]

Things cost more here too though.

My grocery bill is about 1350 Yuan a week , there are 14.89 Yuan Renminbi to one pound.

Rent of a three bedroom house is approx 2700  Yuan a week.

To buy a three bedroom house approx 2,700,000 Yuan Renminbi.

Your computer of 5000 Yuan is approx  three hundred and thirty pounds.

You average living requirements will be cheaper though I bet !

It's too dear to us.

in my middle school,a girl matriculated by Oxford,It's quite hard-won for our place.
but she can't go to Oxford,the life is too dear..

example: my lunch cost me 3 Yuan...and it's enough to me.

Some poor student in my univercity cost 200 Yuan a month,someone less..

Many family can't support the tuition in univercity,though the cost (a year) is equal to rent of a three bedroom house a week.

I`m off to dinner then to go out and install a Wi-Fi unit, I`ll come back to this.